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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Celebrating Mother's Day ever since I became a Mom is so special. It's the precious blessing that I have that no money can buy. Being a Mom is such a huge responsibility but it comes with great rewards as well. Anyway, we pre-celebrated Mother's Day in the State Park but before we left that morning, my daughter made me breakfast in bed (I will make a separate post about that on my food blog), how sweet After breakfast, we went to Tomlinson Run and had so much fun out there. We went for a long walk

My daughter is allergic to mosquito bites so I let her use my arm protection sleeves.

I love it that my kids love to explore nature. Not many kids does these kind of activities anymore. I think with the presence of technology, most children nowadays are contained in the room playing games.

We were surprised to see some shell casing along the road of the park. We thought that was odd that someone fired shots out there. It might be from a sheriff or a police who wants to scare away some coyote or something (I hope that was the reason).

My kids look forward to go to this lake during warm weather. Just seeing cray fish and other bugs and critters makes them so excited.

Ms. Burrito does not have a perfect balance so her brother gave him his walking stick.

Her goal is to cross the other end and stand on the big rock. It took a while but she did it. She fell and had a wet butt but she's happy lol.

Mission accomplished, that's a smile of success right there!

Mr. Burrito was busy picking empty shells in the middle of the lake then I asked him to turn around and give me a smile so I can take a photo of him.

He smiled, and feel on his butt too. So of course he blame me for it lol. I didn't mind being blamed as I got a sweet smile out of it.

I love seeing my kids having fun if what nature has to offer. This is the kind of fun that no gadget can give.

I always forgot to bring extra clothes for these Burritos but good thing, we always have towels in our car.

We stayed quite a good bit at the lake, we let them have fun splashing in the water before heading back home.

After our nature adventure, we visited Dad at his house.

My kids and husband bought me a gift. I wish they look for some coupons before buying it, they could have saved some moolah hehehe. On the actual Mother's Day, my husband cooked some breakfast for us and hen we attended the noon mass. My daughter served in the altar, I was pleased to see that. It was her second time being an altar server.

We didn't go somewhere in that day but we are planning to do something special with the kiddos on Father's Day. A day at Sky Zone would be great since my kids love jumping on a trampoline. That's why I am glad to find this Sky Zone coupons at Ann Coupons website. This would help save some from our budget. My niece-in-law told me about the new place near our area so we might check that out.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Our current temperature is 48 degrees, can you believe that? ThAccording to the weather advisory, there is a possibility of a frist tonight so I cover my vegetable plant because I don't want them to die. Having said that, the drastic change in tempertature reminded me of these photos that I ook of my kids in early sprong when they were jumping in the trampoline. These were taken in April so everything seems dead stuill, they are now in full blast green. I just hope that there would be no frost tonight.

I ;ove it when these two gets along so well and play together nicely. Yes, there are days that they can't stand each other but most of the times, they get along just fine. I giuess, it depends on their moods and things thatthey like to do.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

The two finalists in American Idol music competition was revealed last night. Nick Fradiani and Clark Beckham were the two lucly finalists and tonight will be the revelation of the winner. I haven't seen it but whoever wins deserves it. BOth of these men are talented, they know how to play instruments like piano and guita. I am sure that they are very familiar with the string 200l as they both love to play guitar. It is said on the news that that Season 15 will be the last season of this competition, it might be because less and less people are watching it.

The 7th annual Festival of Nation was held at MILLSOP COMMUNITY ENTER on March 21st, 2015. It was dfifferent this year. I noticed that the trees outside the building are not even budding yet compared to last year. (Just ignore the head on the photo, my husband was goofing off while I was taking the photo, lol).

There was less number of participants this year as well comparedfrom the numbers of participants last year. Even the Filipino community have downsized. I am not sure what happened but this year was not as good from the previous ones.

Nevertheless, I busied myself from taking some photos. Here's my friend's daughter, wearing of the costumes for their cultural dances.

The St. Joseph Choir always participates and sing songs. The Music Director of the school is always encouraging the kids to share their talents to people.

While waiting for the program to start, I got the chance to tke some photos of them while they were asitting on the bleachers.

One of the things that I always find missing when attending events here is the lack of decorations in the stage. When I was still working in school, whatever events we hold (big or small), we always decorate the stage the details of the events like the theme, the guest speakers, and other things. Over here, there's nothing. I guess, it doesn't mater but I am just used to those stuff back home that I find it a bit odd. Anyway, here's the City Mayor giving his opening remarks to offially open the event.

Sime snap shots I took during the parade, the presentation of the participants. There are not many this year. I missed thecolorful outfits of those participants from Ukraine last year. I did not see them this year.

Our son hasn't participate in the choir yet but I am thinking that next yearm he would be in it as well as he is starting to sing with the choir at church. We will see.

Most of the cultural dances we've seen this year reoresented Philippines.

My favorite among their performances was the "Tinikling" dance, they were so good. I wish I could have captured them in video. I thought the performers represing India did a great job as well.

I am glad that the kids are very interested in participating into this kind of events, it hones not only their talents but their social skills as well. This kind of exposures help their self confidence.

I admire the dedication that the music director of the school is putting into this. Practicing a bunch of kids is not easy but she doe it so well. I hope that next year, there would be more participants to the said event. It is always nice to see different cultures through the dances and food. MY kids wer disappointed that there was no Funnerl cakebooth this year. That's one of their favorite thing to get when attending this kind of event. Yep, there were so many things missing this year.